Critical Thinking Blog 3

Consider the current youth popular culture compared to those of the past. What movements do you have in your youth culture? How are you a part of your youth culture?

I am 2o (almost 21) and that puts me in the tail end of today's "youth" culture. My generation is preparing to take the reins and run the country. My generation has become the "here and now" culture and we have almost zero patience; our short patience coincides harmonously with our rude behavior to those around us. While I love my cell phone I know for a fact that it has completely altered my generation. Many students sit in class and text the whole time while others do not even bother to put their phones on silent. With the advent of internet on our phones, kids can instantly check their myspace and post to twitter (I have absolutely no clue what it is but Miley Cyrus has one). My culture is obsessed with instant communication wherever we are. For example, I went to Hawaii a couple months ago and I kept my phone with me at all times; I was talking and texting instead of enjoying the scenery and vacation.

There has been one advantage to the mass media we are all bombarded with these days- communication to rise for a cause. There is no refuting that my generation has been charged with changing our nation's way and being sustainable (Green for lamens). We have become obsessed correcting the planet's depleted fossil fuel dependance and reversing global warming. My major is architecture and my sophmore year in the program the class curriculum made a dramatic and swift change to green over aesthetic design. While music, television and other mass media still control and manipulate each generation, my generation's culture has become much more dependent on each other as we look to fix the world. I cant help but think we are as naive as any other generation's culture- we just have cell phones and myspace.